And therefore, if He is exceeding sorrowful, it is on account of our grief, and not His own; if we see Him despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows (Is 53:3-4); the cup which His Father tenders unto Him is the cup of all the iniquities wrought by us, and all of all the punishments prepared unto us, which would have overwhelmed the whole world, if He alone had not taken, held, and drained it.…all these streams of iniquity flowed into one cup of woe and suffering for Jesus: all hell was precipitated upon the heavenly soul, and is it then to be wondered at, that it was exceeding sorrowful even unto death?
ib. Homily V: On the Cross
Nineteenth Century